Outsource It!

Defining Your Outsourcing Strategy

• Define the scope of the outsourcing work. Don’t bite off more than you can chew, yet outsource enough to meet your SMART objectives.

• Split the outsourcing work into discrete, manageable components. Work partitioning can be based on many dimensions, such as organizational structure, development methodology, or functional components of an application or system.

• Define best-of-breed outsourcing methodology for your entire engagement and its components. Consider single-sourcing, multisourcing, microsourcing, out-tasking, and crowd-sourcing.

• Develop an outsourcing approach for each of the components.

  • Pick an engagement model, such as resource augmentation, component outsourcing, project outsourcing, offshore ...